What Were Your Earliest Pregnancy Symptoms?

I am not expecting (I am on here to see where my sister-in-law and her baby are in development and LOVE reading all about pregnancy.). Since I was 5 I have been 100% sure that I wanted to be a mom, so learning new things about pregnancy to expect in the future is always fun.

I'm wondering what everyone's earliest symptoms of pregnancy were. Doesn't have the be the most common-- it could be something whacky that you associate with your pregnancy but that isn't proven to be induced by pregnancy. Just anything.

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Sore and enlarged boobs and tiredness. Before I found out everyone kept commenting that my boobs looked gigantic, and they did. Then I started sleepin 16 hours a day!! I took a test and when I saw the positive, it all made sense. 2 weeks later, morning sickness, nausea, more boob pain and more tiredness came on! It was rough from weeks 6 to 11. Those were the worst. I haven't been sick once since week 11, knock on wood!

well, i thought i was getting the flu, i was sick, and achy and tired. i had a light spotting that was about 2 wks earlier than my period should have been, and my mom told me i was pregnant. lol, i said no, you dont know what you are talking about...and then i took a test anyway, and sure enough...i was pregnant...still am 5 days after my due date too!!!

My first sign was a nagging backache...and the smell of bacon stopped me dead in my tracks (heightened sense of smell.) I took a home pg test, not really thinking I was preggy at all. At about 15 weeks, I was SO tired I would literallymake it from my bed to work, home to eat and back to bed. Only a little morning sickness though.

My husband and I were trying so I knew my ovulation day. About 10 days after I ovulated I started having really sore breasts. They even hurt when I walked. I had really bad cramping and a tugging/pulling sensation in my lower abs. My lower back hurt and I just felt like crap. I had just gone off of my birth control so I thought I was having effects of stopping the pill. Two days before AF was due I went out and bought ibuprofen and thermacare heat pads. I told hubby to brace himself because my first period off of birth control was going to be ugly! Then the day AF was due I waited until later that afternoon and took a test just for the hell of it and it came up positive so I ran to the store and bought another and that also came up positive.

My pregnancy (currently wrapping up week 30) has been really, really easy and I've enjoyed about 98% of it, so I think I'm a bit of an outlier here. HOWEVER even outliers can answer, right?

The earliest symptom I experienced was a profound sense of smell. I could smell anything anywhere at anytime. It was amazing. My entire life, I've never been able to smell even jasmine flowers in high bloom. But in the first trimester, I could smell a rotten orange in our backyard when I was two houses away. NO JOKE. I found out I was pregnant around week 5 (we were trying to conceive, so I had a nice little stockpile of pregnancy tests to pee on the minute my period was an hour late lol), and my sense of smell peaked around week 7. Thank goodness it eventually waned - around week 11 - becuase oh my goodness, I don't know how much longer I could have taken that.

Outside of that, my only early symptoms were rounder breasts (although they weren't tender then and they still aren't), darker nipples (also not sensitive), and some mild fatigue. I found that if I just took a 20 minute afternoon nap twice a week, I was fine on the fatigue front.

I noticed that I had to go to the restroom even when I hadn't drank anything it was a real mess. I'm a nurse so you forget to go to the restroom and you also forget to drink. I took a test and I was pregnant but I already knew.

I actually did not have any idea that I was pregnant. During my friend's last month of pregnancy i would spend the days with her and she would repeatedly tell me that i was pregnant. she dared me to take a pregnancy test and i did. It came back positive. after another 3 weeks I went to the doctor, who told me that I was. A week later, my breasts were extremely tender. Now in the 2nd trimester, that was the only symptom I have had